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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 18:16:44 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: pointer question
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Bjørn Hansen wrote:
> 
> If I have a global pointer to a Ship class I made declared like this:
> 
> Ship *scouts=NULL
> 
> and then in my main function I do this:
> 
> scouts=new Ship
> 
> why can't I do this in one of my other functions?
> 
> Ship *selected_ship;
> selected_ship=scouts[0];

`scouts[0]' is not a Ship *, but a plain Ship.  You probably want:

&(scouts[0])

or

scouts + 0

or plain

scouts

HTH
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Nate Eldredge
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